Wow. Now that I RTFA, the writer can go to hell and die too. Just because you don't enjoy food as much as the rest of us doesn't mean you have to get all butthurt about it. Don't worry... the Olive garden still serves your bottomless bowl of Italian Wedding Soup.

Someone presses for gluten-free foods for people celiac disease. Products start putting "gluten-free" on traditionally wheat-based products to alert those people. Stupid people start thinking that gluten is bad for you and start buying everything that's marked "gluten-free," while telling everyone around them that gluten kills anyone and everyone around them.

Now we're to the point that marketers are labeling non-wheat products "gluten-free" in order to imply that their competition hates you, wants to kill you, and uses that gluten stuff in their product. The result is a mom buying Brand X rice products, baking powder, or whatever, because it's marked "gluten-free" and Brand Y isn't.

kxs401:SilentStrider: You can have my sriracha when you pry it from my cold dead hands,

I don't think the author was advocating the end of sriracha, just the end of sriracha as a trend.

Nonetheless, the author deserves our scorn. More sriracha is for sure the future. I'm not equating sriracha to marriage equality per se, but sriracha is wildly popular amongst youth, at least here in California so that's the way the future will play out.

kxs401:SilentStrider: You can have my sriracha when you pry it from my cold dead hands,

I don't think the author was advocating the end of sriracha, just the end of sriracha as a trend.

Sriracha has its place, but it isn't on everything. A well stocked hot sauce collection is key to avoiding bland food at all times. Sriracha for Asian food, El Yucateco salsa Kutbil-ik De and Marie Sharp's Belizean Heat for Mexican/Latin, Gator Hammock Gator Sauce and Texas Pete for general purpose use and mixing with instant ramen, etc.

On topic- I have been in love with the red cock since, oh, about 30 years or so now, but, El Pato green has a more flavourful taste for many things. I still use Sriracha on quite a few things, but I do wish it had more flavour, and was more fluidic.For those of you who dont know- it has the consitency of toothpaste.

alienated:Lionel Mandrake: There's only so much you can do with a brace of coneys.

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On topic- I have been in love with the red cock since, oh, about 30 years or so now, but, El Pato green has a more flavourful taste for many things. I still use Sriracha on quite a few things, but I do wish it had more flavour, and was more fluidic.For those of you who dont know- it has the consitency of toothpaste.

I've never been a fan of Sriracha but I do love a good green hotsauce (jalapeno or habanero). I'm not sure why but to me green sauce just tastes better.

kxs401:log_jammin: ReapTheChaos: Why does she act as if Jello shots are some new fad?

Because she just heard of them.

Next year it will be about how Fondue is so played.

I take it you haven't seen all of the articles recently on how to make watermelon jello shots or caramel apple jello shots and the like?

That's just a new twist on something old. When I was a kid we used to put Kool-aid in ice cube trays with toothpicks and make popsicles out of them. Then when I had kids they had plastic containers shaped like popsicles with their own plastic stick. Nothing new, just a new twist on the same old idea.

kxs401:A perfectly good food (sriracha, pickles) can be a highly annoying food trend. Don't mix the two up.

On the other hand, ignorant people often dismiss something of value as "trendy" just because they hear more than two people mention it in a week.

Coffee is a good example. The quality and availability of boutique coffee has risen spectacularly in the last 5-10 years. People are learning to appreciate coffee in a way that wasn't really possible before. Is it becoming a trend? Certainly. Is it a silly fad? Hell no. American interest in 3rd wave coffee is transforming the economies of entire nations. The more people that become educated enough to differentiate and appreciate the complexities that coffee has to offer, the more 3rd world farmers can feed their families growing a really amazing product, instead having to grow bulk crap for Folgers for a fraction of the profit.

Of course, there are always people who are resistant to change, and will stubbornly insist that a cup of coffee should cost less than a dollar and taste like roasted ass, because that's the only thing they know. If it weren't for trends, nobody would ever find out about anything that's not on a TV commercial. Trends that start with a few people who are in the know are at least preferable to trends that are cooked up and astroturfed by national-level corporate marketing groups. And if being able to drink natural-sundried Geisha from Yirgicheffe that tastes like farking blueberry pie means I have to listen to a couple of hipster douchebags argue french press vs. pour over, then fine. It's worth it.